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Carmen · Akrem Chekki

EXERCISE 7 OF 32
Groove D -- Part D
38 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D, PART O
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCOJRD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Carmen on drums

72 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 69 BPM, 2:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-39, snare through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|
Carmen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 42, 45 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-47 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Carmen?

69 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Carmen hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Carmen?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 42, 45 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED